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43% of US companies will be blogging by 2012

Blogging is a great media tool in which to share your thoughts, ideas, research, musings and valuable content on a specific topic or area of interest.

Blogging can easily allow you to:

Give your thoughts and opinions on current events and other blogs or articles.

Create two-way conversations with your current customers or audience and draws in new prospects.

Establish yourself as having something worthwhile to share.

Demonstrate your expertise.

Connect with people who have similar interests.

Promote your business.

Share your music.

Provide excerpts of your writing.

Test out new product, topic or story ideas.

Share content that you think is compelling.

Make a difference.

Determining why you are blogging
will set you on the path to attaining your goals.

What will I do for you using a WordPress Blog?

Set up a fully branded profile using a basic theme taking into account your personality and copy balance ensuring that it represents your message and image to your audience. Includes a blog page, an “about” page, optional video page, and choosing appropriate links and widgets for the sidebar.

Pre-load your blog with 7-10 of your posts before launch.

Determine the most effective categories and tags for your content.

Syndicate your blog to LinkedIn – displays your WordPress blog directly on your profile page. This is a great way to encourage LinkedIn connections to become subscribers.

Syndicate your blog to Twitter and Facebook.

Set up your “sharing” features so that your blog posts can be easily shared by your readers.

Submit your blog to appropriate blog directories for more exposure.

Follow like minded bloggers.

Include a way for people to subscribe to your blog through an RSS fee and/or an opt-in email list.